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Last year, there was news of a planned Vomir release which was to be called A Day Of Seclusion. This would have been / will be a very apt title given that it would involve a sixteen C90 boxset. Yeah, you read the previous sentence correctly: 24 hours of Romain Perrot's glorious Harsh Noise Wall! Surely, that would open up a black hole and destroy us all ...

Whilst we wait for that delightful end to all things, here is a boxset that was released on Anarcho Freaks Production in an edition of only 20 copies in 2012. This is a magnificent ten C90 set that (obviously) clocks in at 15 hours of quality HNW.

The label blog seems to have gone quiet recently but you can check the Bandcamp page whilst we wait for an update.

Just in case you were concerned that Bleak Bliss had stopped being one big sausage party ... rest assured!

This a huge three C90 tape set released on HarshFuckedForLife Records in 2010. It features Mackenzie Chami's Insurgent project (and you might know him from Bachir Gemayel, Crown Of Cerberus and Koufar amongst others), Kevin Jansen's Un (you might also know him as Svartvit) and Missing Girls (who I know nothing about really).

These tapes came in at just over 200MB each. Just in case that messes with people who don't have an account, I've uploaded them as single sides.

In case you thought that Bleak Bliss was one big sausage party, here are a couple of albums by an actual female artist. Yes, they exist! Maat was the alter ego of German composer Dörte Marth, who was in the band Devantgarde in the early 1980's (anyone want to share their releases?), then created three wonderful albums of chilly synthesizer minimalism under the name Maat in the 1990's. "Yacikaa" was the third and final Maat album, put out by Drag & Drop Industrial in 1996. All of her work under this name reminds me a little bit of Asmus Tietchens' Sky Records output.

This is a deranged no-fidelity single-sided C30 released on Beast 666 Tapes in 1991.

Apart from the notable exception of The Gerogerigegege and Masomania, it features three Boredoms tracks in 3 minutes, one and a half minutes of UFO or Die and 40 seconds of Yellowhouse (a blink and you missed it collaboration between Eye and Hitoma Arimoto who ran the label). Twelve and a half minutes and gone ... and then you realise it's nicked your wallet on the way out!

"WARNING: This double cassette compilation 'Garbage Sandwich', is only mere 'garbage' which musicians, non-musicians, artists, non-artists, who exist, live, work or have already disappeared in mainly Japan, U.S.A. or all over the world, play, which only lunatics or perverts play, which is the worst and the lowest one like real garbage and normal person cannot find out any necessity, meaning and value to listen to and it has spent about three years from the end of 1989 to the end of 1992 and comes to waste and which becomes only 'garbage' after collecting, compiling, producing, decomposing, and at last breaking completely and after all, it does not have any meaning and does not bear anything and everything comes to nothing."

This is a double C100 set released on the legendary Japanese label Beast 666 Tapes in 1992.

It's a strange beast if you'll pardon the pun. You get Masonna, Boredoms, Ruins, Hijokaidan, Hanatarash, Zeni Geva, UFO Or Die, Violent Onsen Geisha (believe me you need to check that one out), Jojo Hiroshige, Incapacitants, The Gerogerigegege and nine Yamatsuka Eye "outfits" that only exist for the purposes of this release and then you get a 3 minute track from Masomania (a collaboration between Masonna and Solmania). As far as I know, the only other Masomania is on the Yellow Power Scum tape. I'll be posting that tomorrow!

And then you get the likes of Con-Don and The Grey Wolves. And then you get German Shepherds and live Smegma. Jello Biafra turns up.

And then we finish off with a brilliantly fucked up reworking of a telephone call that GG Allin made from prison whilst he was waiting on charges of attempted murder.

YSNBWATID hail from the unlikely environs of Portsmouth on the South coast of England. They are criminally obscure given that they produce some of the greatest heavy garage psych that I have ever heard. The Godz, Blue Cheer, Stooges, MC5, Mudhoney crammed into a blender, add a dollop of Sabbath riffage and then view through the prism of The Spacemen Three's drug consumption. Or something ...

Painfully, I hadn't heard Demons until Cardinal Fuzz released these CDRs in 2012 and then I really realised what I had been missing. The first 50 of these came with the bonus Contact Raw Sessions disc. These sessions formed the basis for the Contact High CD released on Function Records in 2009. Cardinal Fuzz in all of their visionary glory are about to re-release Contact High as a double vinyl. If a band ever needed to be heard on vinyl, it's these men! Thank you Cardinal Fuzz!!!

This is the most fun you will have this weekend ... with or without your clothes on!

Very early album by Astronaut, a cosmic synth trio featuring Daniel Lopatin (who today makes stellar bleep as Oneohtrix Point Never) and Lee Tindall (aka Zerfallt, Belarisk, Mutation in the Gryd, etc). It came out as a cassette on the Cleveland, Ohio, label Mistake on the Lake in 2008. Rough and raw, but the seeds of future drones are clearly audible even on this formative tape.

C30 released on Housecraft Records in 2009. Housecraft has it's own Bandcamp page on a paywatchyalike basis. However if you search around for some of the artists that appeared on the label you will find similar loveliness!

As far as I know, Vanilla Host only released two tapes. They were a collaboration between Daniel Dlugosielski (father of a million wonderful projects and to truly mix a metaphor gave birth to Excite Bike and co-runs Moon Mist Music with Hellfire Holly Young) and Jeffry Astin (aka Abolicao, Digital Natives, Isaac Willow and Xiphiidae who collaborates in any number of your favourite things and founded the wonderful Housecraft Records).

Dislocation occupied a strange in-between space in the world of late 1990's Japanese underground music. They had one foot in free improvisation, one in gallery art/film performance, and a third foot in the noise underground. Band member Keishi Kiyokawa produced no sound at all; he was only credited with visuals and performance. Yoshinori Yanagawa's alto shrieks slice through the air in a manner that echoes his contemporary, Masayoshi Urabe, and recalls their shared saxophonic ancestor Kaoru Abe. The synth and "electronics" players lay down a bed of low-level chatter that seems more in line with David Tudor, Hugh Davies, or Brian Doherty than with noise monsters Merzbow or Incapacitants. Dislocation might be thought of as a free improvisation unit, descended from East Bionic Symphonia or Taj Mahal Travellers. There's a lot of strange empty space here, though, not the cathartic wail one might expect. Still, it's terrific stuff. The fried electric improv skree on "Carve Another Notch" was recorded in 1990 and 1993 and released in 1994 by Scatter. It features a subdued Shohei Iwasaki/Monde Bruits playing samplers on the first two tracks.

bloggs is Joe Bloggs, a member of ur-drone monsters rhBand and/or a pseudonym for rhBand's Ralph Haxton. "Music for Multiples" doesn't sound much like rhBand, though. These obtuse organic crumplings are more similar to the prosaic mystery of Small Cruel Party, tac, or Yeast Culture.

Social Junk were (presumably) at their core Heather Nicole Young and Noah Anthony. Their history is a mystery but there were obviously other people involved.

I'm rather shamefaced about not posting Social Junk before ... thanks to Tom for posting the Give Up tape and asking for some more Junk to be made available. I have a mountain of Social Junk so maybe this will be the start of me pulling my finger out (?).

Oh, and I meant to say that whilst the Junk journey is apparently over Spleencoffin have recently re-released the Renewal tape on vinyl!

In recording terms, this was a short-lived "covers" band featuring three absolute legends. Masami Kawaguchi on Bass, Ikuro Takahashi on Drums and Keiji Haino on Guitar and Vocals. Their material focused on pop tunes from the 1950s and 1960s. You would never recognise them as the three utterly dismantle the originals and create something completely unique!

All-over-the-place 1982 tape that gathers everything I like about De Fabriek in one place! You've got some rough low-fidelity noise collage, synth bleep, industrial clatter, people muttering to themselves (?), and some charmingly inept punk blurt.

Radioplays by Giancarlo Toniutti's brother, Massimo, issued as a CDR by Aua Records, a label (and, apparently, CD duplication service) based in the Toniuttis' home town of Udine, Italy. There's lot of fun, classically "musique concrete" hectic jump-cuts between dialogue, television, field recordings, and other music, but I suspect a working knowledge of Italian would make this more meaningful. If you like Lionel Marchetti, Brume, Michel Chion, or Pierre Henry, this is a darned enjoyable ride.

If that early P16.D4 tape tickled you, then this further slab of German industrial pre-history will make your entire month. Originally issued by the band on Wahrnehmungen as an LP in 1980, then reissued with four bonus tracks on a CD by Absurd in 2004, this was a provocation against the German new wave drivel being perpetrated in the wake of punk rock at the time. Lyrics drip with sarcasm: "Do the disco, do the disco, dance baby dance, you know you like it, do the disco". Yeah, sure. The band, of course, is Permutative Distorsion or Progressive Disco or P16.D4. Following some icy "pop" (ahem) disdain, the band slips into TG-inspired synth nausea and heaps of scrumptious tape loop gloop. Speaking historically, this LP sits alongside The New Blockaders "Changez les Blockeurs", SPK "Information Overload Unit", Merzbow "Material Action 2", Nurse With Wound "To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl", and a very few others as one of the defining documents of the dawn of what we now call industrial noise music.

This is a double LP released on their own Spiderleg Records in 1984. This is simply one of the greatest English albums ever made and is a classic from the Anarcho-Punk era. A beautiful time when politics, music and life converged. A desperate and glorious time!

Four tape retrospective set released on Trash Ritual in 2006. Ninth Massacre used to be fellow Texans Richard Ramirez and Dwayne Cathey. This covers their three releases plus a couple of unreleased tracks and (I think) material from their only live performance.

Once again, a CDr released on Fatagaga in 2009. You should know Ohno Masahiko as Solmania. Rather than a noise assault, on these three discs he wrings the life out of guitars to create some wonderful improvisational work.

I can only assume that Fatagaga was his own imprint created to release these. There was a 3" CDr called "Destroy Ohno Monsters X" that I have never heard or seen ... if somebody is sitting on that and would be willing to share that would make us all happy!

The very first cassette by German legends P16.D4, issued on their own Wahrnehmungen label (the name soon changed to Selektion) in 1981, then reissued as an LP on Was Soll Das? Schallplatten in 2004. It's far from the immaculately-produced, austere tape-splice confusion that the band would produce in subsequent years. This music is more in line with No Wave, punk, dub, and broken home taper noise, and it's as raw a document as the band ever produced. Mastermind RLW (Ralf Wehowsky) and Roger Schonauer rock the tape machines, guitars, bass, and do some "singing". Both would remain members of P16.D4 and Selektion until their end in the late 1990s. Gerd Poppe and Achim Scepanski (on drums and synth, respectively) were shorter-term band members. That last guy would go on to found a little techno label called Force Inc (with subdivisions Mille Plateaux and Ritornell of interest to readers on this blog), but surprisingly, this is one of his only recorded appearances.